Ethical decisions are a hard process and the decision is not always easy when making them. When making ethical decisions it is good to collaborate with other professionals. Counselors, social workers, and psychologist play a certain role in helping clients. Clients expect the best care from clinicians and expect that clinicians.
Clinicians need to understand that they need to not imposed their own values, when making the correct ethical dilemmas. Clinicians need to look at the whole client when making an ethical decision. For example, the clinician needs to look at the client’s whole multicultural perspective when making those ethical decisions. Counselors need to look at an ethical decision making model, when making the hard ethical …show more content…
Then the clinician would like to discuss with the child therapist to see if they suspect child neglect. Then the clinician would like the social worker to evaluate the children for signs of neglect or abuse. This clinician would like to present the case with the assistance of the social worker and discuss the case with the supervisors or the treatment team. Then the clinician would discuss with the client of the appropriate action for the ethical dilemmas. First thing is making sure the children are in a safe place, then making sure the public and the client is safe. This clinician would call the children protective services to evaluate the home. The reason the clinician would do this is to make sure that the children is not being abused or neglected. Jane seems to have had to take the parent role, because of the way she has to protect the other children and the mother. Then Johnny wants to be secrets and hiding makes this clinician think that he has to do this at home. Then the third child is shy and tearful, which makes this clinician think of abuse. When this clinician looks at this case from the state laws and ACA code of ethics these laws and codes come to mind. ACA (2014), code B.1d, discusses making sure the client understands the clinician’s limitations when dealing with ethical matters and when the clinician needs to break confidentiality. Also in the ACA (2014), code of ethics B.6. a discusses creating and maintaining documentation and making sure the documentation discusses all professional services rendered. This would include all ethical matters and referrals. In Ohio revised according to Ohio Revised Code section 2151.421 it discusses the counselor’s responsibility to report suspected child abuse or neglect to the appropriate authorities. Also in the Ohio Revised Code 4757-5-09 discusses keeping proper documentation to ensure the best quality of service